A Morning without Coffee . . .

Happy July 1st Everyone!

A new month means new monthly challenges out in blogland and one of my favorites these days is the challenge offered at Imagine That! Creative Playground.  If you've not checked out this challenge blog before now, you owe it to yourself to click on the link now and see what they are offering!

How cute is this guy!!  

By playing along last month using any Imagine That Digistamps, they sent me this FUN set!  How COOL is that!!

 I was short on time so I went with the PRECOLORED image

and added the sentiment (via Word10) before printing,

and creating my fun card!

I have a friend who LOVES giraffes so guess who this card is being mailed to!  LOL
She's going to be so surprised as we haven't seen each other in a couple of years.

A Tutti Designs Nesting Stitched Rectangle was used to showcase my image and FAUX stitching was done around that background matting.  A little double loop bow of black organza and my card is ready to send!

Challenges to share in:
Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge - Punches & Dies
Brown Sugar Challenge #257 - ATG
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #357 - ATG
 The Cutie Pie Challenge #112 - All Creature Great & Small

Hope you (and she) like it!

Thanks for stopping by and as always . . .

Happy Everything ...

Happy Friday Everyone!

Today I've created a card that could cover a multitude of occasions!

With this sweet Imagine That! Creative Playground 'Pretty Petunias' digi image and this 'Awesome' Penny Black die set, it took no time at all to create this fun & functional card.

What do you think?

 The background paper I have used is 'as old as the hills' and was in a stack of 6x6 cuts I purchased from a SU rep years ago.  I must admit, that was a really good idea she had.  She took all the old 12x12 SU designer paper she had left over in her paper packs ... cut they 6x6 and sold them as a variety pack.  That made for a wonderful variety and who doesn't like a reasonable price to top it off??

I've created this card for the Imagine That! Creative Playground June Challenge which is Anything Goes AND if you use any of their Imagine That! digital stamps as the main focus on your creation, you will receive the Featured Digi Set (outlines & color) FREE!  What a deal and these digis are awesome!  Be sure to pop over to see the ADORABLE stamp set being featured for June!

For today's card, I have printed the 'outline' stamp of the petunia and inserted the 'colored' hummingbird into the scene before printing and coloring.

After printing my image and doing the coloring with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers, I didn't like all the 'white space' (I really struggle with white space, lol) so I grabbed a few of my new Tim Holtz oxide ink pads, speared some on my craft mat, sprayed with water and proceeded in drawing some onto a paint brush and FLICKING the background.  Cool ... I'm happier with that!  LOL

I had this scrap of  turquoise cardstock laying on the top of the scrap bin from an earlier project so thought it would be a pretty contrast color to use as my mat panel.  THEN when I decided on my sentiment, there was just enough left to die cut my sentiment panel ... YAY!!  Don't you love it when a plan comes together!  LOL

I popped up the focus panel with dimensional tape, added a few vines and VIOLA!

Challenge to share in:
Crafting by Design Challenge - Things with Wings
 CropStop Challenge #29 - ATG w/product carried at store
The Crafty Addicts Challenge #37 - ATG option/use dies
Color Inspiration Challenge #23 - ATG w/hand colored image
Addicted to Stamps Challenge #150 - Flowers
Love to Craft June Challenge - ATG

I hope you'll come check out this fun challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Here's wishing you 

HAPPY EVERYTHING!!

As always . . .

Recipe:
Papers:  SU dp, Turquoise cs, White cs, Olive cs
Dies:  Tutti Designs 'Nesting Stitched Rectangles' #217, Penny Black 'Awesome' #51-333, Frantic Stamper 'Spring Ivy' #FRA9451
Accessories:  Tim Holtz Oxide Distress Inks - Amber, Pistachio, Worn Lipstick,   Dimensional tape, paint brush, Spectrum Noir alcohol markers